The applications folder was also half mapped onto the HDD for “large” games. I had installed OS X 10.7 Lion on the 256 GB SSD and set my home directory to be located on the 1 TB HDD to maximize space savings on the smaller capacity SSD. This wasn’t the ole’ optical drive second storage drive swap there is enough space to keep the optical drive behind the display! I recall the second storage drive fit behind the optical drive but it was a tight fit to refit the display on the case (no glue for this model, either!). The 2011 iMac curiously enough has enough space inside the display case to fit 2 storage drives. Before I left California for college in 2012 I had upgraded this iMac from stock HDD by adding an internal 256 GB Sandforce SSD. My father and I were trying to use a Mid-2011 Apple iMac to run some games and it was exhibiting strange issues with no clear fix. If the OS is in an unbootable state, this method may not work. You can still boot to a USB drive if you have either the password for OS level access (TLDR at end) or firmware (EFI/BIOS) password for a post-2011 Macintosh computer. Clean install OS X on a Macintosh computer made during or after 2011 with an unknown EFI password.
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